Air Force One Is Down

Not sure who gives a film crew money to make such an inconsistent, badly acted, hokey film. Nuff said, had high hopes, but they were dashed 10 minutes in.

I'm not usually a fan of this genre, but I decided to watch it solely because of one of the actors.

Let me start with the positives: the cast is genuinely likeable. It's a shame, then, that they're wasted in such a poorly made film. Many reviewers have already highlighted the laughable fight scenes, the stereotypical characters, and the heroes' baffling naivety (at times, it felt like a children's show masquerading as a serious, pretentious blockbuster)-and I wholeheartedly agree. That said, against the backdrop of this film's overwhelming ineptitude, the final scene did manage to elicit a good-natured chuckle from me. By that point, I'd accepted it as an unintentional comedy and leaned into the absurdity.

As a Slavic speaker, there was another detail that amused me to no end: a caption on Arkady Dragutin's device reads "podklyuchenie prervannyy", which is grammatically incorrect ("podklyuchenie prervano" would be correct). It's baffling. The creators aimed for a high-stakes blockbuster but couldn't even bother to check their Russian? Marvelous.

Ionly saw this in my local sainsburys saying its a movie so when I found it for a pound in a charity shop I bought it.Now I don't normally review online but since its the 30th anniversary of Alistair Macleans death I felt like saying something.Boy oh boy what a disaster!For starters its not an Alistair Maclean novel its his plot written by John Denis.Alistair Maclean is my favourite thriller writer and I've read all 29 of his books but sadly the film versions are terrible.This one bears zero resemblance to the novel.The characters are so wooden woodpeckers could attack them!The action is fair but maybe its the idea that lets it down.A group of heroes with different abilities having to work as a team with a bit of comic relief is so 1980s.If it stuck to the book more and was made in the 1980s it might have worked better.

This mini-series with two episodes is truly a very good movie, and customers will be well entertained when watching Air Force One Is Down. Personally, I find that it is one of the best balanced versions of action and a good storyline. You are moved all along through the plot, and it contains quite a few surprises along the way. One should not see such a film as though it was 'faithful to history' as one reviewer seemed to think. Rather the contrary, this is just great fun in a good setting. For an IT-nerd such as myself, it also asks some pretty good questions as to what is actually possible. I would therefore claim that anyone and everyone will find something valuable in watching this film. I warmly recommend it.

Watchable, but some hideously bad acting from a couple (the blond Serbian woman was awful) and some really bad erroneous plot-points.